Press Release: NAID 2017-2018 Board of Directors Installed

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Phoenix, Ariz., March 30, 2017 – The NAID 2017 Conference and Expo held last week in Las Vegas is where the National Association for Information Destruction® (NAID®) conducted its annual business meeting and installed the incoming board members.

Eric Haas of ARMS Inc. was installed as the NAID President, where he will serve a one-year term.

Angie Singer Keating, CISA, CISM, CIPP, CISCO of Pennsylvania-based Reclamere, Inc. was installed as President-elect, subsequent to her nomination and the election preceding the conference. After a one-year term as President-elect, Keating will automatically advance to the NAID presidency.

The NAID 2016-2017 President, Don Adriaansen, MBA, CSDS of TITAN Mobile Shredding, transitioned to the role of Past-President. As an Executive Committee member he will continue to offer council to the Board after his years of service with the organization.

Patrick DeVries, CSDS of Washington-based DeVries Business Services was installed as the association’s Treasurer for a two-year term following his nomination and election.

During a meeting that followed NAID 2017, the NAID Board of Directors approved two appointments to fill vacancies created by the election results.

NAID Director Brock Miller, CSDS of Oregon-based Shred Northwest was appointed to the office of Secretary, which was vacated by DeVries being elected to Treasurer. Cory Tomczyk of Wisconsin-based IROW was appointed to fill the Director seat vacated by Miller.

The Board also appointed Michael Payton, CSDS of Kentucky-based Data Vault to serve as the Chair for the NAID 2018 Conference & Expo, which will be held April 13-15, 2018 in Nashville, Tenn. Jamie Hughes, the Director of Events and Programs for NAID, had this to say of the appointment, “Payton is a leader who can facilitate the Conference Committee in planning our best event yet.”

ABOUT NAID

The National Association for Information Destruction (NAID) is the international watchdog and non-profit trade association of the secure destruction industry, which currently represents more than 1,900 member locations globally. NAID advocates for a standard of best practices across governments and by service providers as well as suppliers of products, equipment and services to destruction companies. The mission of NAID is to promote the proper destruction of discarded information through education and to encourage the outsourcing of destruction needs to qualified contractors. For more information visit http://www.naidonline.org/, or follow us on Twitter and Facebook at @NAIDonline.